A81239:165
Deliverance-obstruction
Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646
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Second Use, Examination.
And yet in the Second place, though in such Exigencies and Emergencies as these be, we should labour to keep up good thoughts of the Cause, 1and good thoughts of God; yet there is great reason that we should at such times turn in upon our selves, and bring back to heart our own ways, and our own doings, to see what the CAUSE may be on our parts, why Gospel-designs, Church-deliverances stick so long in the birth, meet with such desperate retardings and retrograde motions: for this is certain, Deliverance seldom sticks in the birth, but there is some sin and folly at the bottom.
And yet in the Second place, though in such Exigencies and Emergencies as these be, we should labour to keep up good thoughts of the Cause, 1and good thoughts of God; yet there is great reason that we should at such times turn in upon our selves, and bring back to heart our own ways, and our own doings, to see what the CAUSE may be on our parts, why Gospel-designes, Church-deliverances stick so long in the birth, meet with such desperate retardings and retrograde motions: for this is certain, Deliverance seldom sticks in the birth, but there is some sin and folly at the bottom.
Ephraim is an unwise son: 1for he should not stay long in the place of bringing forth children. A metaphorical expression, importing thus much, that he should not have stayed so long for his deliverance out of Babylon, had there not been some great folly bound up in his heart;